Commemorative coins honor fallen firefighters, fund their families.
H.R. 2257 — National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Coin Act · Filed by Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) · 47 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 21, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill authorizes the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative coins honoring fallen firefighters and the service of firefighters throughout U.S. history. The coins—50,000 gold $5 coins, 400,000 silver $1 coins, and 750,000 half-dollar clad coins—will be sold at face value plus a surcharge ($35, $10, and $5 per coin respectively). All surcharges collected go to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to support its programs, after the Treasury recovers its design and minting costs. The coins are legal tender and will be issued only during 2026.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole function is to authorize the minting and sale of commemorative coins honoring firefighters, with surcharges directed to a nonprofit foundation. This is a standard commemorative coin program under existing statutory authority (31 U.S.C. § 5112).
What the text implies
- The bill caps issuance to 2026 only, creating scarcity and potential collector demand that may drive secondary-market prices above face value plus surcharge.
- Surcharges are paid only after Treasury recovers all design and minting costs, meaning the Foundation's funding depends on sales volume and timing—if coins sell slowly, Foundation payments are delayed.
- The bill references but does not restate the annual commemorative coin program limit (31 U.S.C. § 5112(m)(1)), meaning this coin program counts against the federal cap on such programs in any given year.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Citizens gain a commemorative coin honoring a public service profession and can choose to purchase it; the Foundation supporting fallen firefighters and their families receives dedicated funding with no taxpayer cost. The mechanism is transparent and the beneficiary (a nonprofit supporting firefighters) serves a legitimate public purpose.
Who stands to gain
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
Named in the bill
U.S. Mint, Secretary of the Treasury, National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, Commission of Fine Arts, Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee
Where it stands
47 cosponsors: 29 Democrats, 18 Republicans.
- Mar 21, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 21, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Financial Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Mar 2026. Those filings disclosed $20,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 5 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Andrew Garbarino, the sponsor, reported $1,954,500 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — $20,000 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through May 5, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (5,038 characters) on May 19, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Mar 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through May 5, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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